Acronis Assigned Two Patents

Data allocation providing increased reliability of storage
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,241,878) developed by Ivanichkina, Lyudmila, Bryansk, Russia, Korotaev, Kirill, Dolgoprudny, Russia, Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, Beloussov, Serguei, Singapore, Singapore, and Smulevich, Mark, Moscow, Russia, for “system and method of data allocation providing increased reliability of storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is disclosed for storing a block of data in a distributed data-storage system. An example method includes identifying a list of a plurality of disks in the distributed data-storage system, randomly selecting a disk from the list of the plurality of disks and adding the selected disk to a subset of disks allocated for a copyset, and continuously performing the step of randomly selecting the disk and adding the disk to the subset of disks until the copyset contains a predetermined amount of allocated disks from the distributed data-storage system. Furthermore, this process is repeated to perform a plurality of copysets. Once the copysets are defined, the method further includes dividing the block of data into a number of data chunks equal to the predetermined amount of allocated disks, and, distributing the data chunks onto disks of one of the plurality of the copysets.”

The patent application was filed on March 24, 2016 (15/079,303).

Reliable distributed data storage with controlled redundancy
Acronis International GmbH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (10,235,240) developed by Tormasov, Alexander G., Protasov, Stanislav, Moscow, Russia, and Beloussov, Serguei S., Singapore, Singapore, for “system and method of reliable distributed data storage with controlled redundancy.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method is disclosed for data storage in a distributed data storage system. An exemplary method includes generating derivatives of a file using an ( n,k) algorithm, such that k number of derivatives can be used to restore the file. Moreover, the derivatives are stored in nodes in a multilevel tree representing the distributed data storage system and a rank is calculated that indicates a fault tolerance of the file. The method further determines whether the rank is greater than or equal to k to ensure reliability of recoverability of the file. If the rank less than k, the method reorders one or more derivatives to a different node and/or store one or more additional derivative from the file.”

The patent application was filed on July 5, 2016 (15/201,688).